wd320gb sata2 vista 32bit oem problem

[mconnaola]

Hi,

Got the wd hard disk and vista at the same time.Vista will not detect the hard drive at all.Not sure why but if anyone could help I would be grateful.
My memory is 2x512 the motherboard is msi 865pe neo 2 and an old p4 cpu.
I will post this in both the os and the hard drives forums if that is ok.Thanks for any help.

Kind regards,
mconnaola

 

[mconnaola]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.Sorry for the delay.The drive is connected to port 1 and I think it is intel controller.I did not notice anything in bios will shut down and check now.
The full part number of the mainboard is msi 865pe neo2-ls(601-6728-020)
Sorry for being slow with this.

Kind regards.
mconnaola

 

[mconnaola]

Hi,

I should have said that I have a 80gb maxtor hd and a smaller quantum 15gb and a cdrw plus a dvd drive.Vista installed on the maxtor which is not a sata drive.I got the wd for the install but vista can not see it.I saw nothing about sata in the bios which is amibios 3.31a.

Kind regards,
mconnaola

 

[mconnaola]

Hi,

Checked the standard cmos it showed the maxtor and the quantum but nothing on third master/slave or fourth master/slave and the same in disk managment.Thanks for the help guys but I am going to call it a night.

Kind regards,
mconnaola

 

[mconnaola]

Hi,

Thank for the advice you were right.S-ata was disabled.My on-chip ide configuration screen look like this.
on-chip ata(s) operate mode legacy mode
ata configuration p-ata + s-ata
s-ata keep enabled yes
p-ata keep enabled no
p-ata channel selection both
combined mode option p-ata 1st channel
s-ata ports defination p0-master/p1-slave

I have now installed vista on the wd s-ata drive.The pc can see all 3 hard drives but not the 2 dvd/cd drives and the load time for vista is minutes, is that normal.

Kind regards,
mconnaola

 

[mconnaola]

Hi,

I can only change ata configuration,combined mode option and s-ata ports defination.
If i change the combined mode option to s-ata 1st channel I can see the s-ata wd hd and the dvd/cd drives but not the other 2 hd's.

Kind regards,
mconnaola